Clear, salutations, and pleasantries in a short news beautiful - but who has so much time? Luckily, you do not have to type in the phrases such as "I'm on the way!" even each Time.

Berlin (dpa/tmn) - Who wants to type less, can teach his iPhone shortcuts. With the so-called text substitution, the number of keystrokes is significantly reduced, because users, instead of entire words or word sequences, each of only have to tap a few characters. So bgd", for example, Am" is extended as "the same!". And from the letters "ild" is "I love you!".

Own shortcuts, you can quickly create a simple matter of the Finger on the Emoji button, or the icon "keyboard" set switch. Then on the "keyboard settings" and then click "text setting" type. In the top right corner there is a small cross is now to see that your own abbreviations to add.

Into the field "Text" is then the desired Text into the field "command" the keyboard shortcut. Then the iPhone displays at the input of the stored command, the corresponding word or the word sequence as an option.

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